Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and now the science is precise enough to test one of Stephen Hawking’s key ideas.
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That galaxy next door? It’s home to a monster black hole
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It’s the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.
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James Webb Space Telescope’s ‘little red dots’ come into focus
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these “little red dots” and found clues about their identity.
